Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
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Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
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Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Job 18:7
The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
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Genesis 22:20
After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
1 Kings 4:30
Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings 4:31
For he was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations all around.
1 Kings 4:32
He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered one thousand five.
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Numbers 11:11
Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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Deuteronomy 3:6
We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
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1 Samuel 9:2
He had a son whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a more handsome person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.
1 Samuel 17:8
He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
1 Samuel 17:49
David put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
1 Samuel 17:50
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David’s hand.
1 Samuel 17:51
Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it.
1 Samuel 31:5
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
2 Samuel 14:25
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
2 Samuel 16:23
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.
2 Samuel 18:17
They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
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1 Samuel 18:5
David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
1 Samuel 18:7
The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
1 Samuel 23:20
Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
Matthew 21:9
The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
John 19:15
They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
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2 Samuel 7:1
When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
Job 29:2
“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
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2 Samuel 19:34
Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
Job 7:1
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
1 Corinthians 7:30
and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
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Job 4:18
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
Job 4:20
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21
Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
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1 Samuel 20:3
David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
2 Samuel 1:26
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women.
Job 14:3
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Psalms 49:12
But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Psalms 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Psalms 82:7
Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
Psalms 90:3
You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
Isaiah 40:6
The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
Daniel 4:31
While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.
Luke 12:16
He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
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Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 13:25
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:1
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
Job 17:14
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
Job 17:15
where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
Job 17:16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Psalms 102:23
He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Job 37:4
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard.
Job 37:5
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
Job 40:9
Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
Psalms 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
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Job 3:19
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
Job 10:9
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
Psalms 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Psalms 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
Psalms 146:3
Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
Psalms 146:4
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Luke 16:22
The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 16:23
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
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Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Psalms 39:12
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Hebrews 13:13
Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
Hebrews 13:14
For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
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Psalms 31:16
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
Luke 2:29
“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;
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Psalms 33:16
There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
Isaiah 40:30
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
Amos 2:14
Flight will perish from the swift. The strong won’t strengthen his force. The mighty won’t deliver himself.
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Psalms 89:46
How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
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Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
Psalms 119:96
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
Matthew 5:18
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
Psalms 144:3
Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
Isaiah 40:15
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
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Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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Job 11:17
Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
Job 15:29
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 20:22
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Revelation 18:7
However much she glorified herself and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
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Isaiah 49:4
But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
Jeremiah 16:19
Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
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Luke 4:7
If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”
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Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
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2 Corinthians 9:4
lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.
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Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes 2:10
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
James 1:12
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
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Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”
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